Virgin Australia has announced plans to operate twice-weekly between Perth and Canberra during Parliamentary sitting weeks, with the flights to operate on Thursdays and Sundays. Flights for sitting weeks in August, September, October and December 2017 are now on sale, while flights for 2018 will go on sale once the 2018 Parliamentary sitting calendar is released,
Residents of Norfolk Island look set to regain their air links to New Zealand from June, when privately-held Norfolk Island Airlines plans to start flights to Auckland using a leased Boeing 737-300 from Nauru Airlines. The island will lose the only nonstop flight to New Zealand from May 21, when Air New Zealand stops flying
Alliance Aviation Services says its contract with OZ Minerals to fly workers to the miner’s copper/gold Prominent Hill site in South Australia will end in August. The company said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on Tuesday that the end of the contract on August 11 2017 would have no impact on its
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says its investigation into the Regional Express flight that lost a propeller en route to Sydney has found fatigue cracking that initiated in the engine’s propeller mounting flange. Saab 340B VH-NRX was operating flight ZL768 on March 17 when its right propeller separated from the engine about 19km from Sydney. The aircraft was carrying
Domestic economy airfares edged marginally higher in April while business class tickets were a touch lower, new figures show. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) measure of domestic business class airfares was at 94.1 index points in April, down slightly from 94.4 points a year earlier. Meanwhile, the restricted economy index was
Cathay Pacific has promoted chief operating officer Rupert Hogg to become the airline’s new chief executive. Hogg will take over from current chief executive Ivan Chu on May 1, Cathay said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon. Chu, who has been chief executive for a little over three years having been appointed in March 2014,
